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    Question Women in Combat

    Then, in 2013, then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the ban on women in combat would be lifted entirely, and that female service members would be allowed to serve in direct ground combat roles. In 2015, this was put into action. This historic change opened up hundreds of thousands of jobs for women in the military and essentially ensured that as long as female service members completed the necessary training and requirements, they could now serve in almost any role in the U.S. Armed Forces.

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    I thought we put this issue behind us more than a decade ago. Apparently not. Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary wants to reverse course. Below is what he said last week. To be fair to Hegseth, a Fox News Host, he surely had no idea when he spoke last week that anyone would consider nominating him to lead the U.S. military.

    "I'm straight up just saying we shouldn't have women in combat roles. It hasn't made us more effective, it hasn't made us more lethal, it has made fighting more complicated," Hegseth said.

    He added: "As the disclaimer for everybody out there, we've all served with women and they're great. It's just our institutions don't have to incentivize that in places where traditionally, not traditionally, over human history, men in those positions are more capable."

    Before this, Hegseth had argued that his position was about maintaining the standards of military units.

    He said: "You had women truck drivers...or mechanics on these convoys in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then they'd be ambushed or hit by IUDs and suddenly you have women in combat - that's maybe a modern reality in a 360 battlefield, that's different than intentionally saying 'we're gonna put women into combat roles so they will do the combat roles of men,' knowing that we've changed the standards in putting them there, which means you've changed the capability of that unit.

    "And if you say you haven't, you're a liar. Because everybody knows, between bone density and lung capacity and muscle strength, men and women are just different."

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    Quote Originally Posted by ClydeR View Post
    I thought we put this issue behind us more than a decade ago. Apparently not. Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary wants to reverse course. Below is what he said last week. To be fair to Hegseth, a Fox News Host, he surely had no idea when he spoke last week that anyone would consider nominating him to lead the U.S. military.
    Fuck yeah. We're going back, bitch.

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    Pete Hegseth, lol. only the best people

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    what country has the most powerful military in the world?

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    Quote Originally Posted by joeyb View Post
    what country has the most powerful military in the world?
    I’m sure this has nothing to do with answering your question:


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    Quote Originally Posted by joeyb View Post
    Pete Hegseth, lol. only the best people
    What specifically makes him unqualified for the position?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Parkbandit View Post
    What specifically makes him unqualified for the position?
    All he was told was Pete Hegseth was on Fox & Friends. Nothing else matters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Parkbandit View Post
    What specifically makes him unqualified for the position?
    That's not how it works. A person is unqualified unless there is something, or some combination of things, that makes him qualified or unless there is something that disqualifies him. There will be many Senators who believe that he is disqualified by his desire to roll back the rules on women in combat by more than 10 years. Will any of them be Republicans? Will he say he misspoke?

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    Published 6:09 PM CST, January 19, 2021

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Twelve U.S. National Guard members have been removed from securing President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration after vetting by the FBI, including two who made extremist statements in posts or texts about the Wednesday event, Pentagon officials said. There were no specific threats to Biden.

    Two other U.S. officials told The Associated Press that all 12 were found to have ties with right-wing militia groups or posted extremist views online. The officials, a senior intelligence official and an Army official briefed on the matter, did not say which fringe groups the Guard members belonged to or what unit they served in. The officials were not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The AP on condition of anonymity. The officials told the AP they had all been removed because of “security liabilities.”

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    The article does not identify any of the 12 Guard members. Wonder if we've ever heard of any of them?

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